Olivia Jean
“Night Owl” LP
scum stats: I’m pretty sure we pressed 500 copies on the color variant, but after 600+ releases, my memory is really getting foggy
WOOOOOHOOOOO happy release day!
We’ve been working a while for this one and am super-stoked to drop this album on to the world.
If I can be a little bit of a self-promoter, I’m proud to say I play drums on the title track of this LP.
OJ had a session scheduled and her regular drummer was unavailable, so I dropped in at the last minute.
We spent most of the day on a complex, complicated song that had lots of starts and stops and different parts and just quite different from structures I am used to playing.
(that song did not make the album, whatever it was called)
Then just before calling it a day, Olivia said that she had a little germ of an idea and that she wanted to just get it down to tape.
When she played that tasty little lead riff my eyes LIT up. I KNOW how to play drums to that shit! In my brain, I just locked in to Dave Grohl circa ’93 style and it was damn fun to jam along.
I really, really had no part in deciding that it was the lead single…but I certainly didn’t disagree with it either.
But honestly, the entire album is chock full of bangers. Covers of the Flaming Groovies and the beautifully odd and catchy Bollywood classic “Jaan Pehechan Ho” are stellar, while the originals are brimming with energy and enthusiasm and twangy surf style.
And man…the colored vinyl on this sumbitch is one of the most exquisite pieces of vinyl that Third Man Pressing has ever made.
To help celebrate, I’m giving away a test pressing of the “Night Owl” LP here. In the comments here, share a story about staying up late. No sleep. So tired you’re hallucinating. It can be true, it can be made up, just make it good. Winner is chosen at my discretion. Go!
After making our way out of the dunk tank Jack looks at me and says “Are you with me”? And I say, “Jack, my man, under normal circumstances I’d totally be with you, but seeing as I think I broke my arm rolling down that steep hill I think I should seek immediate medical attention”.
I hallucinated that I met Jack White under water after rolling down a hill, soaring in the air and falling into a dunk tank.
1998 in military worked all day and at 5 pm started driving from nc to mi. Arrived in mi at 6am when driving down us223 i saw a man and dog get hit by a truck a mile or two ahead of me. However when i got there there was nothing. I then realized i really needed sleep….
I stayed up all night trying to make up a story about staying up all night so I could win the test pressing.
I stayed up all night watching The Lord of the Rings… again.
Thanks for putting these in the vault store! Got our copy today! A TP would look good next to the it ?
This is a true story. In 2005, Chris and I went to visit 2 friends going to school at Emory. The 4 of us decided to go to Stone Mountain since none of us had ever been there. We climbed up the side of the mountain, not knowing we were going up the wrong side. It was starting to get dark when we got to the top. Only the 4 of us were there. We decided since we already went up the wrong way, we might as well go down the wrong way.
As we start climbing back down, we hit a small plateau. There was a blonde girl standing at the edge, looking lost. We asked her if she was okay. She turned around, look at us, and smiled. She said she was fine but that she couldn’t remember how to get down. So we told her to come with us since we were heading down. We tried making small talk with her but she was quiet for the most part. She said her name was Amelia. When we asked her where she was from, she just pointed off in the distance and said “There.”. The only thing there was a hospital. Then she ran in front of us, where we lost her in the tree line. We were trying to climb down cautiously, since these are sharp slopes in some areas. When we get to the next plateau, we find Amelia sitting on the edge of the cliff. I commented on how fast she must have ran to get there since we weren’t that far behind her. She just looked at us and smiled. She then got up and started following behind us. We would be talking, and then she would run past us again.
As we got to the bottom, we found the mountain road that connects to the main road. There was a trees line parallel to the main road. So you couldn’t see the main road until you went past it. Amelia ran past us and turned right once she got to the road. We caught up about 20 seconds later and looked right. Amelia was nowhere to be found. There were no cars on the road as it was late at night. To this day we believe we came down the side of Stone Mountain with a ghost who needed help going home.
Back in the 80’s prior to the web, I would stay up all night calling our local college radio station requesting songs, just to record them on my cassette player! It was hard to find some of that oversees music at Camelot!!! Anyway, thanks for your posts, love ’em!
I’m too tired to make something up so just send me the record Ben!
Lies, all lies!